Chryseis

Family: Argive · Role: priestess of Hera · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 17

Life events

• Chryseis accidentally burned the temple of Hera after falling asleep beside a lamp.(Book 2 · Chapter 17 · 📍 temple of Hera)
  • “That temple was burnt by Chryseis, the priestess of Hera, falling asleep, and her lamp first setting fire to the decorations.”
• After the temple burned, Chryseis went to Tegea and supplicated Alean Athene.(Book 2 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Tegea)
  • With: Alean Athene
  • “And Chryseis went to Tegea and supplicated Alean Athene”

Book 2 · Chapter 17

• with Hera (Chryseis was Hera's priestess.) “That temple was burnt by Chryseis, the priestess of Hera”
• with Alean Athene (Chryseis supplicated Alean Athene.) “Chryseis went to Tegea and supplicated Alean Athene”

Also listed in Argive — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.